was Father Figures,...Snape, Hogwarts, & Hermione

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I am also sorry if this comes twice.  I think Sofie and are are having 
the same problem (glad to know it's not just me).  The return message I 
got on this one says it will keep trying to deliver unitl Sunday --but 
will it even be relevant then? lol.

Magda Grantwich wrote: 

     > Has anyone noticed how fanatical Snape is in his reverence for 
     > Hogwarts?  Rules are everything. And he can come up with no 
worse punishment for Harry - who he loathes - than expulsion from 
Hogwarts: a fate he seems to regard as the equivalent of exile. 

     Oooooh. Wow. Mmmmm. Yes. Very, very good observation. It's true. 
Outer darkness, ultimate fate to wreak upon Harry = expulsion. And 
Sirius says Snape was always trying to get the Marauders expelled, too. 
So was Hogwarts the home that Snape didn't have where he came from? 
Have all his actions been somewhat "protective" of Hogwarts, too--even 
the bad ones? Was he trying to get disrespectful troublemakers out of 
Hogwarts where they didn't belong, instead of it being a personal 
dislike? Was he involved with the Death Eaters for a similar reason? 
Great insight, I'd never thought of that. 

     --Amanda 

     Why does he also antagonize Hermione, who is striving to be THE 
Hogwarts prize pupil? 

     Doreen 


She's not a Slytherin?  She's a girl? She's not from a strong wizarding 
family?  She's a know-it-all?  She reminds him of a girl he went out 
with who dumped him for Sirius Black? <g> Maybe Snape wants young 
Malfoy to continue to think he's still on "their" side - so Lucius 
won't set out to "get" him, and the reports of things Draco's overheard 
and feels like a bigshot for repeating will keep coming. 

I actually like the thought about Hogwarts being "home" for Snape (and 
leaving Hogwarts being the reason he joined the DEs).  People who feel 
they have no place to belong do tend to get sucked into cults, don't 
they? 
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